Italian literature: The Fourteenth Century
The Fourteenth Century
The two great writers of the 14th cent., Petrarch and Boccaccio, sought out and imitated the works of antiquity and cultivated their own artistic personalities. Petrarch achieved fame through his collection of poems, the
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- The Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- The Napoleonic Era and the Risorgimento
- The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- The Renaissance
- The Fourteenth Century
- The Thirteenth Century
- Bibliography
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